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Jan 17, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
Monday, January 20 is sure to be a day of pomp and circumstance that brings Americans of all political leanings together in celebration of the nation’s most cherished of institutions. We are talking, of course, about the college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Article continues after advertisementThere is a secret sauce that makes the spectacle that will unfold in Mercedes-Benz Stadium—and indeed the entire system of college football—possible.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva |Kevin Canfield
“The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game” by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. Photo: The University of North Carolina PressThis month, millions of Americans will gather around TVs and in packed stadiums, cheering as young men representing their universities flatten one another. College football, gearing up for its 12-team championship tournament, would be unrecognizable without scary collisions and their inevitable consequence — serious injuries.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
“It is clearly the duty of the colleges which have permitted these monstrous evils to grow up and become intense to purge themselves of such immoralities … Intercollegiate and interscholastic football ought to be prohibited until a reasonable game has been formulated.” Those were the words of Harvard University president Charles W Eliot in 1906, a year after three college players died playing football, part of a spate of deaths that led many universities to abandon the sport and President...
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
inthesetimes.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
“It’s the fourth quarter. We’re down a field goal. But we’re on offense. We’re driving down the field. And, boy, do we have the right team to win this.” Those were part of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s closing remarks on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
nbmediacoop.org | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
The Canada Soccer drone spying scandal offers an ideal prism through which to examine the question of what is perceived to be scandalous in the context of global high-performance capitalist sport—and what is not.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
canadiandimension.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
The Canada Soccer drone spying scandal offers an ideal prism through which to examine the question of what is perceived to be scandalous in the context of global high-performance capitalist sport—and what is not.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
In Thursday night’s NFL game between the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills, Miami’s $212m quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered his fourth documented concussion, and third since joining the NFL, after colliding with defensive back Damar Hamlin, who himself nearly died in a game less than two years ago. The reactions from inside the football world were immediate and telling. Dez Bryant, longtime Dallas Cowboys wide receiver: “That’s it … NFL go ahead and do the right thing.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
Six teenagers have now died while playing school football in less than three weeks. This astonishing rash of football-related school deaths should be understood as nothing less than a public health emergency. It is also a clarion call to question why we are exposing our young people to such a dangerous activity at all, much less in institutions designed to care for and nurture them.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva |Mark Harris
The college football season kicked off on August 24, when Florida State and Georgia Tech visited Dublin, Ireland, to battle it out in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. While those athletes fulfilled their athletic obligations overseas, other students at Georgia Tech had already begun classes. This discrepancy between academic and athletic experiences on U.S. campuses is no surprise.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |Derek Silva
Clint* says he was suffering from an undiagnosed concussion when he collapsed on the field during preseason training camp for a team in the Power Five, the elite level of college football. It was an incident that foreshadowed the tragic death of Jordan McNair at a University of Maryland practice. Clint was attended to by medical staff and ultimately hospitalized overnight. Meanwhile, the head coach called out, “Move the drill!” and sent the team to continue on another side of the field.
